An Indonesian court Tuesday sentenced a former government minister to 20 months in jail for corruption and ordered him to pay a IDR50 million ($6,000) fine.
Former Social Affairs Minister Bachtiar Chamsyah had bypassed the tender process and directly appointed suppliers of imported cattle, sewing machines and sarongs meant for victims of natural disasters, the court heard.
“The defendant Bachtiar Chamsyah has been proven legally and convincingly to have carried out an act of corruption,“ chief judge Tjokorda told the anticorruption court in Jakarta.
“He is sentenced to one year and eight months in jail,“ he said.
Chamsyah's sentence was lower than the three years demanded by prosecutors. Indonesia scored 2.8 out of 10 in Transparency International's annual Corruption Perceptions Index for 2010, ranking it 110th out of 178 countries.
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